508 Report on the Trials of Implements at Wolverhampton. 
Fig. 19. 
travulling-wheels to his ancliors for removal, but easily and expeditiously 
incloses each disc in an angle-iron ring by three bolts and nuts (Fig. 19).. 
The implement used with this apparatus is a cultivator^ 
working with three, four, or five tines, and much resem- 
bling the Woolston cultivator in form. On June 28th, 
five men and a boy, with the help of ten horses, moved 
and set down tlie machinery ready for work in 1 hour and 
35 minutes. Five men and one boy were engaged in the 
work of breaking up the foul clover-lea at a depth of about 
6 inches ; deeper work, from 7 to 74 inches, being also^ 
done with 3 tines in the implement. But there were so' 
many stoppages, mainly from the want of training in the- 
men, and also from the anchors giving way, that the- 
trial was ultimately abandoned and the set withdrawn- 
from competition. 
Plot C in Field No. XII. Tlie Bavensthorpe En- 
gineering Company's 10- Horse Self-moving Engine ai\dC 
High-speed Bope Set, working a Fowler'' s Mine Turning 
Cultivator (Catalogue No., 6023), price 690Z. ; consisting 
of a Clayton and Shuttleworth's 10-horse self-moving 
engine, with double cylinder of 7i inches diameter and 12 inches stroke, two- 
self-moving windlasses, six corner-anchors, one driving-rope anchor, two claw- 
anchors, twenty-five rope-porters, 1200 yards of -*-inch Manilla hemp rope, 700^ 
yards of 5-inch steel rope, and a 5-tine turning cultivator. Weight of the engine, 
9 tons 9 cwts. 1 qr. 9 lbs. ; of the two windlasses, 9 tons 4 cwts. 7 lbs. Five- 
men, with the help of five horses, moved and set this machinery down in readi- 
ness for work in 14 minutes. Four men were engaged in working, and the 
cultivator made fair work in the foul clover-lea, at an average depth of 8 inches^ 
After 1 J acre had been cultivated, the work was brought to a conclusion by a 
step-bearing of one of the windlasses becoming hot and melting away, for want 
of proper lubrication, the shaft then getting out of line and stripping several 
cogs off a spur-wheel. The trial was consequently abandoned. 
Blot E in Field No. XIV. Messrs. Fowler's 12-IIorse Clip-di-tcm Engine 
and Travelling-Anchor Set (Catalogue No., 6482) and 7 -tine Balance Culti- 
vator, with Slack Oear (Catalogue No., 6508). Price 7997. 'i'hc weight of 
the engine is 9 tons IFj cwts. With three men and two boys this apparatus, 
was set down to work in 19 j minutes. The 3-acre plot of barley seeds was 
cultivated in 1 hour 58 minutes, including 24 minutes' delay from the acci- 
dental fracture of the advance-motion spur-wheel of the anchor. The average 
time occupied in reversing the implement was only 12 seconds. The rate of 
performance, taking 3 acres to have been done in 1 hour 34 minutes, was 
19 acres 23 poles in ten hours, or 22 acres 3 roods 35 poles in an autumn day 
of twelve hours. The work, averaging 7i inches deep, was exceedingly good, 
and thoroughly well broken up. 
Blot Fin Field No. XIV. Messrs. J. and F. Howard's 10-ITorse Portable 
Engine and Detached-Windlass Set, with 5-tine Beversihle Cultivator (Catalogue 
No., 1170) ; consisting of a 10-horse portable engine with single cylinder of 
10 inches diameter and 14 inches stroke, detached windlass, 1600 yards of 
l|-inch circumference steel rope, one compensating double snatch-block, 
five single snatch-blocks, seven anchors with steel claws, four wood anchors, 
eleven three-wheeled rope-porters, eight lever rope-porters, two angle-iron 
porters, 5-tine reversible cultivator, &c. Price 500Z. ; with 4- furrow combined 
plough in addition, 5807. The weight of the engine is 5 tons 9 cwts. 1 qr., 
and of the windlass 2 tons 16 cwts. The plan of working is on the roundabout 
system. The two-wheeled windlass is well known for its simple arrangement 
for throwing either drum in or out of gear, and for simultaneously bringing the 
